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# departed

«departed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Left a place, especially to start a journey (the train…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (past of «depart»: depart, departs, departed, departing); adjective (departed); noun (the departed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Left a place, especially to start a journey (the train departed at 9:15). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/#m1)

2) (euphemism, formal) Dead: «our dear departed grandmother». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/#m2)

3) (noun, «the departed») People who have died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/#m3)

4) (formal) Changed from a usual way: «departed from tradition». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In timetable maths: «the bus departed at 10:20 and arrived at 11:05» — find the journey time by subtracting. A polite euphemism in funerals and stories for someone who has died. Phrases: «departed from», «the dear departed», «recently departed».

### examples

- The train departed on time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/#x1)
- The bus departed at 2:15 and arrived at 3:00, so the trip took 45 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/#x2)
- The ship departed for France at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/#x3)
- (euphemism) We lit a candle for our departed friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/#x4)
- (euphemism) Let us remember the departed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/#x5)
- He departed from his usual route to avoid the traffic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/#x6)
- The guests departed after dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/#x7)
- Soon afterwards his mother also departed from this world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/#x8)

### note

Formal; everyday: «left», «went», «died» (or the euphemism «passed away»). Opposite: arrived. In maths: journey time = arrival time − departure time.

### In the corpora

- ["Departed this life" means died; it is old-fashioned and found on old gravestones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/8/)
- ["The departed" means the dead person or the dead people; it is polite.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/6/)
- ["The dearly departed" means the dead; it is polite and is sometimes used jokingly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/8/)
- [And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.364/)
- [And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.750/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «departed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.